Sidewalk cafe owners are getting a break from Mayor Bloomberg – their fees are going up, but they won’t face the 400 percent hike originally proposed.

The Department of Consumer Affairs announced the new fees yesterday. They assess a flat fee based on the first 70 square feet of sidewalk used by a cafe, instead of the first 20 feet, as the Department of Consumer Affairs first proposed. The change will significantly cut what restaurateurs had expected to pay.

Under the city’s original fee proposal, McAleer’s Pub on the Upper East Side would have paid $5,370 for a sidewalk license.

But under the new proposal, the business will pay $3,870. That’s still more than its existing bill of $1,641.

Under the new fee schedule – which has two zones: 96th Street to Canal Street in Manhattan, and the rest of the city – an outdoor cafe on Manhattan’s Upper West Side that pays $3,052 for 279 square feet will now pay $8,190.